The latter is much more plausible for drug sellers than for licit businesses because drug enterprises are essentially never driven out of business by negative accounting profits.

The use of force to obtain justice is morally licit in itself.

Printers themselves were expected to monitor the boundaries between licit and illicit content in their works.

The legislation introduces a number of provisions aimed to ensure that medicines are used safely and for licit purposes.

Adherents generally do not distinguish between licit and illicit substances, but view all drugs as having potential for doing good or ill.

The Board noted with concern the continuing global disparities in the actual availability and the unjustifiable discrepancies in the consumption of important licit narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in different regions.

Without interdiction and eradication as disincentives, growers are unlikely to abandon more lucrative and easily cultivated coca crops in favor of less profitable and harder to grow licit crops or to pursue legal employment.

Moreover, one can raise no objection when a churchman expresses his concern regarding the material well-being of families and suggests that morally licit methods of improving it should be pursued.

In this, while the drug of choice differed, their patterns of consumption were not markedly different from commonly found ‘normal’ patterns of consumption of licit drugs such as alcohol.

In 1924 a United States law banning licit diamorphine was passed, but this was often ignored by local authorities.